Paris vs New York
Tied on funding — New York has 1.5× more orgs. Across 3 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = Paris RATIO 1.0× SHARE OF WORLD · 4/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Paris 2/100 New York 2/100 rest of world 96/100
Together =
4%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇫🇷 Paris
2/100
$7.2B · #3 of 12
🇺🇸 New York
2/100
$7.1B · #4 of 12
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇫🇷 Paris
#3 of 12 · hub
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New York 🇺🇸
#4 of 12 · hub
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Paris · BLUE = New York
note — Paris runs 1.0× more AI capital than New York. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.
— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m
┌─ tile area ≈ funding · column width ≈ side total · all orgs shown ──────────────────────────── ┐
🇫🇷 Paris 11/12 · $7.5B
🇺🇸 New York 17/18 · $7.1B
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE PARIS RUNS 1.1× NEW YORK